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Modelling the Formation of Sensory Representations in the Brain

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Prerational Intelligence: Adaptive Behavior and Intelligent Systems Without Symbols and Logic, Volume 1, Volume 2 Prerational Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Behavior of Natural and Artificial Systems, Volume 3

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Pattern formation by self-organization is a common phenomenon during brain development. The enormous number of neurons and their connections makes it impossible for organisms to completely prespecify neural connectivity patterns, for example, within their genomes. Instead organisms seem to specify processes which then generate the patterns which are observed in the brain. These processes are supposedly much simpler than the actual patterns, and it is our hope that there are only few and that they can be cast into a small set of simple rules.

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    Klaus Obermayer

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Obermayer, K. (2000). Modelling the Formation of Sensory Representations in the Brain. In: Cruse, H., Dean, J., Ritter, H. (eds) Prerational Intelligence: Adaptive Behavior and Intelligent Systems Without Symbols and Logic, Volume 1, Volume 2 Prerational Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Behavior of Natural and Artificial Systems, Volume 3. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0870-9_16

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